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Their friendship was only one aspect of their lives but it seemed to give meaning to all the others.
Ann Brashares
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Ann Brashares
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: July 30
Film Writer
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City of Alexandria
Virginia
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A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand.
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As the three of them walked home from the trees, nobody needed to say it, but Ama knew. They had questioned their friendship. They had searched and wondered, looking for a sign. And all along they'd had their trees. You couldn't wear them. You couldn't pass them around. They offered no fashion advantage. But they had roots. They lived.
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You know what the secret is? It's so simple. We love one another. We're nice to one another. Do you know how rare that is? - Carmen
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The bottom had arrived. She crashed against it, but it brought no sense of closure or understanding. She just lay there at the bottom looking up. She knew there must be a very tiny circle of light up there somewhere, but just now she couldn’t see it.
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There was a moment in between, a moment flung free in the midst of the transition, when he made contact. That was the moment she would dwell on.
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Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.
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When she is happy, she can't stop talking, when she is sad she doesn't say a word.
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A lot of friendship is about practice, that’s something I’ve learned as I’ve gotten older. It’s not simply some spiritual soul-bond of memories and longings, it’s really about having coffee every week, or talking on the phone every day or every other day - whatever suits you.
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The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.
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She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.
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It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.
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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
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I love her. I need her. I gave away everything I had for her. I just wanted her to know me.
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I love you, I'll never stop.
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But will he come I just want to know what you think the odds are. Tell me what you really think. I think Tibby was a wise girl. I think she loved you.
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You have been with me from the very first life. You are my first memory every time, the single thread in all of my lives. It`s you who makes me a person.
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Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was the interpretation she got from people her own age.
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Everything I ever said to you was true and is true.
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